Welcome to Class 3
Miss Chiam (Teacher)
Mrs Holdbrook (Teaching Assistant)
Mrs Dhanraj (Learning Support Assistant)
Mrs Holdbrook (Teaching Assistant)
Mrs Dhanraj (Learning Support Assistant)
Welcome to Class 3! We are having a fantastic year so far, scroll down to see what we have been learning.
Ancient Egypt - Ipswich Museum School Trip
We have loved our topic of Ancient Egypt, and to consolidate our learning we recently went on a school trip to Ipswich Museum. We took part in an Ancient Egypt workshop and this included:
- Creating a timeline to show how long ago Ancient Egypt was (This involved a lot of dressing up!)
- Exploring the Ancient Egypt Gallery
- Handling Egyptian artefacts up to 4000 years old!
- Learning about Ancient Egyptian beliefs and the afterlife (More dressing up!)
- Using clay to create an Ancient Egyptian shabti or amulet
- Using the Natural History Gallery to inspire ideas for creating our own Egyptian God
Ancient Egypt - Pyramids
How did the Ancient Egyptians build the pyramids? Why were they that shape?
Today we learnt about how the Egyptians built the pyramids. The 3D shape they used was a square based pyramid. We watched a video about how they were built then we created a toolkit for building our own:
Pyramid Building
Today we learnt about how the Egyptians built the pyramids. The 3D shape they used was a square based pyramid. We watched a video about how they were built then we created a toolkit for building our own:
Pyramid Building
- Build the base first.
- The base must be a square. It must have equal sides and right angles. (You can check this by measuring the diagonals.)
- The Pyramid's sides must face North, South, East and West.
- Measure accurately.
After we had created our square based pyramids, we investigated other 3D shapes to answer the question. Why were they built that shape? Here are some of our theories:
Ancient Egypt - Drama
Our topic for the Summer Term is Ancient Egypt. To begin the topic we had a visitor come in to lead a drama lesson all about discovering the pyramids and what was inside. We learned about having a beginning, middle and end to a performance and how to use tableaus to tell a story.
First we had to imagine that we were explorers discovering an entrance to a secret tomb for the first time. Inside we found a mummy, and this is where we acted out the mummification process.
First we had to imagine that we were explorers discovering an entrance to a secret tomb for the first time. Inside we found a mummy, and this is where we acted out the mummification process.
We then created tableaus to show the discovery of the mummy. Inside the pyramids, curses were often written to stop people from stealing. Our final scene showed how the curse affected each group!
PE - Squash
In the Spring Term, Class 3 spent 6 weeks learning how to play Squash. We all took a trip to the Colchester Garrison to practice on squash courts before the most confident players were picked out to take part in the Roman Cup.
Science
Throughout the Spring Term we have been learning about humans and animals. We started by learning about different types of skeletons. We then used our knowledge to plan and carry out an investigation.
Our investigation was inspired by Greg Rutherford, an athlete who represents Great Britain in the long jump. We watched a video of him winning gold at the 2012 Olympics and picked out some variables that may contribute to being a good long jumper. After that, we thought of a question to investigate. Our question was: How does leg length affect the distance we can jump?
Our investigation was inspired by Greg Rutherford, an athlete who represents Great Britain in the long jump. We watched a video of him winning gold at the 2012 Olympics and picked out some variables that may contribute to being a good long jumper. After that, we thought of a question to investigate. Our question was: How does leg length affect the distance we can jump?
Stone Age Morning
On Monday 28th November we had a visitor in called Lucy from the Essex Wildlife Trust. We had a great morning and in the afternoon we wrote a recount about what we did:
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Geography Trip
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We had a fantastic time on our trip around Langham. Before the trip we prepared by using Google Maps to research the local area and we learnt how to draw a sketch map of Langham.
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Sketch map of Langham
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After learning more about maps and their features we were ready to go out. We took a map of Langham with us so we could record the different uses of land along our route. When we got back to class we learned about how to use map symbols. We then used our maps from our walk to create a final version. We also marked the route we walked on our maps in coloured pencil.
In addition to mapping our trip we also documented it by taking lots of photographs! We took a great class photo too which is not on the website but it is up in our classroom alongside our other work - please feel free to come and have a look!
Maths
Follow these links to play some games and work on some activities that will help with your understanding of place value and number.
Don't forget, you can practice your numeracy skills at anytime by logging on to Mathletics!
Don't forget, you can practice your numeracy skills at anytime by logging on to Mathletics!
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Support from Home
If you have any expertise in the topics being taught this term and would like to come in and talk to the children about it then please let us know. Also, if you are able to offer your time on a weekly basis to hear children read or practise their number skills then please come and see the class teacher to talk about it further.
Parental support is always gratefully received.
Parental support is always gratefully received.
